Current Dissertations (2002 - )

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Chinese

*Chen, Zhen. 2006. “The Diachronic Development and Synchronic Diversity of the Disyllabic-Directional Complements in Chinese:  A Corpus-based Cross-linguistic Study on the Grammaticalization Pathways and Semantic Change of the Disyllabic-Directional Complements”  [Ying-che Li, Robert L. Cheng, Tao-chung Yao, Chin-tang Lo, David Yang (Accounting)]

*Chu, Chengzhi. 2004.  “Event Conceptualization and Grammatical Realization: The case of motion in Mandarin Chinese”  [248 pp.] (Ying-che Li, Robert Cheng, Tao-chung Yao, Roderick Jacobs, Gay G. Reed [EdEP])

*Gammon, Roderick A.  2002.  “A Common Architecture for Expressing Linguistic Theories: With illustrations from Chinese languages, cognitive grammar, and software engineering” (Robert Cheng, Hsin-I Hsieh, Ying-che L, David Ashworth, David Chin, ICS)

*Hayden, Jeffrey J. 2004. “Why Johnny Can Read Chinese: Working memory, cognitive processes, and reading comprehension.” (Tao-chung Yao, Hsin-I Hsieh, Ying-che Li, David E. Ashworth, Thomas D. Hudson, SLS]

Hu, Xiao-ming. 2010. “Study on Mandarin Potential Complement Construction V de/bu C”(Ying-che Li, Tao-chung Yao, Michael Forman, Cynthia Ning, Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak)

Hwang, Menq-ju. 2009. “Brush Talk at the Conversation Table Interaction between L1 and L2 Speakers of Chinese” [252 pp.] [Gabriele Kasper, Ying-che Li, Tao-chung Yao, David E. Ashworth, Cynthia Ning] – CD only

*Jiang, Song. 2009. “The Semantic Structure of Chinese Classifiers and Linguistic Relativity” [319 pp.] [Ying-Che Li, Hsin-I Hsieh, Tao-chung Yao, Benjamin Bergen (Ling), David Yang (Acc’tg)

*Li, Yanfeng. 2005. “Linguistic and Graphic Manipulation in the Miscellaneous Forms of Traditional Chinese Poetry” [David McCraw, Chin-tang Lo, Hsin-I Hsieh, Tao-chung Yao, Roger Ames]

*Parinyavottichai, Chanyaporn. 2009. “Cognitive Approach to the Grammaticalization of ‘IN’ and ‘OUT’ in Mandarin and Thai and Related Pedagogical Applications” [248 pp.] [Ying-che Li, Hsin-I Hsieh, Tao-chung Yao, Katsuhiro Ota, Cynthia Ning]

*Su, Shuhui. 2009. “Semantic Evolution and Sense Network Model of Polysemous Adverbs in Chinese: The case of Cai and Jiu” [262 pp.] [Ying-che Li, Robert Cheng, Tao-chung Yao, David E. Ashworth, Chin-tang Lo, Kate Zhou (PolSci]

*Tian, Yuan. 2003. “Ambiguities of the Evaluative Adverb Jiu” [237 pp.] (Tao-chung Yao, Robert L. Cheng, Ying-che Li, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Chin-tang Lo, Cynthia Ning [Asian Studies])

*Wang, Haidan. 2002.  “Images and Expressions in Mandarin Chinese” [Hsin-I Hsieh, Ying-che Li, Tao-chung Yao, Chin-tang Lo, James R. Landers, David Yang]

Wang, Pingli. 2010. “From Spatial Location to Eventual Sequentiality: A Cognitive Approach to the Evolution of Aspectual System in Chinese” [Ying-che Li, Hsin-I Hsieh, Tao-chung Yao, Cynthia Ning, William O’Grady (Linguistics)]

*Wang, Shao-Ling. 2003.  “Prediction? Prescription? A Comparative Analysis Between Chinese and English Modals” [213 pp.] [Tao-chung Yao, Robert L. Cheng, Ying-che Li, Chin-tang Lo, Cynthia Ning (CCS)]

Wong, Ka F. 2010. “Breaking Boundaries, Building Bridges: Reconceptualizing and Integrating the Cultural Dimension into Chinese Language Pedagogy” [Tao-chung Yao, Ying-che Li, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Chin-tang Lo, Cynthia Ning (Asian Studies)]

Wu, Shu-Ling. 2011. “Learning to Express Motion Events in L2 Chinese: A Cognitive Perspective” [Ying-Che Li, Hsin-I Hsieh, Tao-Chung Yao, Lourdes Ortega, Cynthia Ning]

Xiao, Yang. 2010. “Discourse Markers in Chinese Conversational Narrative” [Ying-che Li and Dina R. Yoshimi (co-chairs), Tao-chung Yao, David E. Ashworth, Cynthia Ning (Asian Studies).

Japanese

Bushnell, Cade C. 2011. “Doing Learning, In Practice: A Longitudinal Examination of Participation and Learning at Conversation Analytic Data Sessions in Japan” (Dina R. Yoshimi, John H. Haig, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Gabriele Kasper, Jack Bilmes (Anthro)

*Curry, Stewart A. 2004.  “Small Linguistics: Phonological history and lexical loans in Okinawa-Nakijin Dialect” (Leon A. Serafim, David E. Ashworth, Gerald B. Mathias, Anatole Lyovin, Maryann Overstreet (LLEA))

*Fukuda, Chie. 2010. “Identity Construction, Negotiation, and Resistance: Reconsideration of ‘Japanese’ Identity” (257 pp.) [John H. Haig, Leon A. Serafim, Gabriele Kasper, Graham Crookes, Christine Yano]

*Hagiwara, Akiko. 2005. “The Role of Literality in Comprehension of Utterances in Japanese” [Haruko M. Cook, David E. Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Gabriel Kasper, Shuqiang Zhang]

*Hansen, Kelly J. 2009.  “A Heteroglossic Theory of Proto-Genbun Itchi in Edo and Early Meiji Writings” [275 pp.] [Joel R. Cohn, Robert N. Huey, Nobuko M. Ochner, Katsue A. Reynolds, Helen Baroni (Religion)]

*Hecht, M. Spencer. 2005. “Conventions of Unconventionality: The Rhetoric of Reclusion in Kitayama Japanese Five Mountains Literature” [Arthur H. Thornhill, Joel R. Cohn, Lucy Lower , Paul Varley (History), George Tanabe (Religion)]

*Ikeda, Keiko. 2007. “Audience Presence and Japanese Political Oratory: A case study of a municipal assembly candidate” [261 pp.] [Haruko M. Cook, Gabriele Kasper, Leon A. Serafim, Jack Bilmes (Anthropology, Patricia Steinhoff (Sociology)]

*Ikeda, Kyle K. 2007. “Unspoken Memory and Vicarious Trauma: The Battle of Okinawa in the Second-Generation Survivor Fiction of Medoruma Shu” [Nobuko M. Ochner, Robert N. Huey, Lucy Lower, Leon A. Serafim, Geoffrey White, Anthro]

*Ishida, Kazutoh. 2009. “A Languacultural Approach to Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language at the Beginner’s Level” [249 pp.] [Dina R. Yoshimi, Kyoko Hijirida, Gabriele Kasper, Michael Forman, Kathryn Davis, SLS]

Iwai, Tomoko. 2010. “Becoming a Good Conversationalist: Conversational Competence as a Target of JFL Instruction” [Dina R. Yoshimi, David E. Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Gabriele Kasper, Michael Forman]

Keith, Elizabeth M. 2011. “Dôshinshugi to Realism: A Study of the Characteristics of the Poems, Stories and Compositions in Akai Tori from 1918 to 1923” [Joel R. Cohn, Robert N. Huey, Lucy Lower, Nobuko M. Ochner, Steven S. Curry (English), Todd Sammons (English)]

*Kitade, Keiko. 2005. “Interactional Features of Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication for Language Learning: From Cognitive and Sociocultural Perspectives” [312 pp] [David E. Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Richard R. Day (SLS), Curtis P. Ho (EdTech)]

Komori, Saeko. 2006. “L2 Kanji Recognition Processing” [David E.Ashworth, John Haig, Kyoko Hijirida, Cathy Doughty, Martha Crosby]

*McMeekin, Abigail L.  2003. “NS-NNS Negotiation and Communication Strategy Use in the Host Family versus the Study Abroad Classroom” [Haruko M. Cook, Kyoko Hijirida, Kazue Kanno, Gabriele Kasper, J. D. Brown]

Murayama, Emi. 2011. “Turn Allocation in Japanese Business Meetings: Emergence of Institutionality” (Gabriele Kasper, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Haruko M. Cook, Yumiko Tateyama, Michael Forman, Liam Kelley (History))

*Narita, Ritsuko. 2009. “The Effects of Pragmatic Consciousness-raising Activities on the Development of Pragmatic Awareness and Use in Hearsay Evidentials for Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language” [313 pp.] [Kazue Kanno, John Haig, Haruko M. Cook, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Richard Schmidt]

Nishikawa, Reiko. 2011. “Exploring Conversational Storytelling: Ties and Roles in Friendships Among Japanese Adult Speakers” (Dina R. Yoshimi, David E. Ashworth, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Gabriele Kasper, Liam Kelley (History))

*Ridgeway, William N.  2002.  “Gender, the Body and Desire in Meian (1916, Light and Darkness) and the Later Novels of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916)” (Valdo Viglielmo, Joel Cohn, Robert Huey, Lucy Lower, Joseph O’Mealy, English)

*Riley, Barbara E.  2003.  “The Genetic Relationship of the Korean and Japanese Languages” [Leon A. Serafim, David E. Ashworth, John Haig, Ho-min Sohn, E. Shultz (CKS)]

*Russell, Kerri L. 2006.  “A Reconstruction and Morphophonemic Analysis of ProtoJaponic Verbal Morphology" [Alexander Vovin, Leon A. Serafim, Robert Huey, Robert Blust, Paul Varley]

*Saito, Junko. 2009. “Gender and Linguistic Ideology: A re-examination of directive usage by Japanese male superiors in the workplace” [239 pp.] [Haruko M. Cook, Kazue Kanno, Leon A. Serafim, Victoria Anderson (Ling), Liam Kelley (History)]

*Sawyer, Rieko. 2004. “Needs Assessment for International Graduate Students of Science in Japan: An ethnographic approach from situated learning theory perspective” [Dina R. Yoshimi, David E. Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Kathryn Davis, Michael Forman]

*Tateyama, Yumiko. 2008. “Requesting in Japanese Through Foreign Language Classroom Instruction” [453 pp.] (Gabriele Kasper, Chair; Haruko M. Cook, John H. Haig, Dina R. Yoshimi, J.D.Brown) [proxy for Cook, D. Ashworth, for Haig, T. Klafehn]

Wellman, Tad. 2010. “Takahashi Oden Yasha Monogatari and the Modernization of Japanese Literature: A Dialogical Perspective” [Joel R. Cohn, Lucy Lower, Nobuko M. Ochner, Joan Peters (English), Valerie Wayne (English)]

*Yanagisawa, Miwako. 2004. “Exploring Social Identity in Narrative as Problem-Solving Discourse: Analyzing Japanese-speaking Christians’ Testimonies” (Dina R. Yoshimi, David E. Ashworth, Haruko M. Cook, Kazue Kanno, Jack Bilmes (Anthropology))

*Zimmerman, Erica L. 2007.  “Identity Constructions of Users of Japanese: Interculturality in Talk” [285 pp.] [Gabriele Kasper, David E. Ashworth, Kyoko Hijirida, Dina R. Yoshimi, Jack Bilmes (Outside Member)]

Korean

*Ahn, Chang Seob –“Five Measures of Interlanguage Pragmatics in KFL Learners” (203 pp)[Ho-min Sohn, David E. Ashworth, Dong Jae Lee, J. D. Brown, Michael Forman]

Choi, Bumyong. 2011. “Quantitative Corpus Analysis of the Korean Auxiliary Verb Construction, V1-e V2” [Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Mee-Jeong Park, William O’Grady (Ling), Robert Bley-Vroman (SLS)]

Choi, Min-Koo. 2010. “Voices of the New Woman in Colonial Korea: Generic and Linguistic Interplay in the Construction of Self-Narratives” (Ho-min Sohn, Dong JaeLee, Mee-Jeong Park, Katsue A. Reynolds, Edward Shultz (Asan))

*Hong, Jong-Myung. 2008. “Teacher-Learner Negotiation in Content-Based KSL Classroom” [212 pp] (Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Sung-Ock Sohn (UCLA), Edward Shultz (Asan))

*Hwang, Jiha. 2002.  “Acquisition Hierarchy in Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL)” [HMS, DEA, DJL, MForman, JDBrown]

Im, Jae-Eun. 2011. “The Korean Stand-alone Discourse Marker kulenikka” (Ho-min Sohn, Dong JaeLee, Mee-Jeong Park, David E. Ashworth, Thomas Hudson (SLS)]

*Jeong, Hee-Jeong. 2009. “A Comparative Study of Copulas in Japanese and Korean” [199 pp.] [Ho-Min Sohn, John Haig, Dong Jae Lee, Alexander Vovin, William O’Grady]

*Kim, Hi-Sun Helen. 2005. “Processing Transfer and Strategies of Heritage and Non-Heritage Learners of Korean” (Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Kimi Kondo-Brown, Amy Schafer, Craig Chaudron)

Kim, Mi-Hyun. 2011. “Phonology of Korean Liquid” [Ho-Min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Alexander Vovin, Patricia Donegan (Ling), Victoria Anderson (Ling)] – Summer 2011

*Koh, Haejin Elizabeth.  2002.  “A Cross-Cultural Study of Address Terms in Korean and English” [136 pp.] (Ho-min Sohn, David Ashworth, Dong Jae Lee, Michael Forman, Linguistics, Yong-Ho Choe)

*Kong, Dong-Kwan. 2007. “Effects of Elaborative Text Modification on KSL Reading Comprehension” [174 pp.] (Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Mee-Jeong Park, Thomas Hudson (SLS), Richard Schmidt (SLS))

*Lee, Young-Geun.  2002.  “Effects of Task Complexity on the Complexity and Accuracy of Oral Production in L2 Korean” (Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Kyoko Hijirida, Michael Long, J.D. Brown)

*Turker, Ebru. 2005. “Locative Expressions in Korean and Turkish: A cognitive grammar approach” (300+ pp) [Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, William O’Grady, Terry Klafehn, Gay Reed]

Yoon, Sangseok. 2010. “Situational Meanings and Functions of Korean Speech Styles – An Indexical Approach to the Korean Speech Style Sentence Endings” [Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Haruko M. Cook, Dina R. Yoshimi, William O’Grady]

Yoon, Yeon-Hee. 2010. “An Analysis of Selected Korean Hedges in Spoken Discourse: Sociopragmatic and Pragmalinguistic Perspective” [Ho-min Sohn, Dong Jae Lee, Mee-Jeong Park, David E. Ashworth, William O’Grady (Ling)]